How to Install Palemoon Browser on FreeBSD reddit / freebsd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alexnoyle · 2023-03-28 15:45 It's great to see that official FreeBSD builds are being shipped now. I have been using a fork: https://dbsoft.org/whitestar.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-03-28 19:36 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- knightjp · 2023-03-29 08:02 Nice.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- yuripv79 · 2023-03-29 11:28 The guy is obviously unaware of the drama with palemoon removal from the OpenBSD ports, and for FreeBSD it was "Remove www/palemoon, it is not maintained and full of security holes.". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alexnoyle · 2023-03-29 12:01 > The guy is obviously unaware of the drama with palemoon removal from the OpenBSD ports This is a video about FreeBSD, how is that relevant? > and for FreeBSD it was "Remove www/palemoon, it is not maintained and full of security holes.". The port was not maintained and still is not maintained, once this beta build is finished, maybe somebody will take on the role. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- yuripv79 · 2023-03-29 12:09 > This is a video about FreeBSD, how is that relevant? That implicitly explains why there is no interest in maintaining it in FreeBSD ports: "*BSD: Due to resistance from the BSD community to adhere to normal free software development practices, we currently have no plans to have official Pale Moon releases of any kind on the range of BSD operating systems." Also: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- ports/2018-February/112455.html > The port was not maintained and still is not maintained, once this beta build is finished, maybe somebody will take on the role. Everything is possible, more so if upstream attitude changed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alexnoyle · 2023-03-29 14:24 > That implicitly explains why there is no interest in maintaining it in FreeBSD ports: If the branding issue were the true cause of that, white star would be in ports. The sad reality is that lots of important ports lack maintainers, and its not always because the underlying software is undesirable. > "*BSD: Due to resistance from the BSD community to adhere to normal free software development practices, we currently have no plans to have official Pale Moon releases of any kind on the range of BSD operating systems." This has changed. You are reading old news. There is indeed an official FreeBSD release now. > Everything is possible, more so if upstream attitude changed. I agree ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mirror176 · 2023-04-02 13:58 PR237107 was about the removal; port was outdated with security issues and maintainer didn't have time to update the port. PR251117 was an effort started over a year later to try to bring it back which ended with its own drama and the original porter behind it giving up after over a year and work finishing during v29. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grahamperrin · 2023-07-28 17:51 > official FreeBSD builds For convenience: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grahamperrin · 2023-07-28 18:06 > PR237107 [237107 – www/palemoon: update or remove port](https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237107) > PR251117 [251117 – [NEW PORT] www/palemoon: Open-source web browser](https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251117) - [PDF, A3](https://bz- attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=243622)